did you know that joey grana of SCOUTLA used to be a goth?here's proof!here he is dancing wildly to the safety dance from men without hats.and here he is with full make-up, drinking some kind of faux absinthe, intoxicated as usual.SCOUTLA is antebellum gallery's neighbor, one block east on cherokee ave, (across the street from the MASQUE and the little shrine to recently deceased Brendan Mullen.

10/22/09

yes, it happens to the best of us.... HELLO KITTY is now 35 years of age. she celebrated her birthday/anniversary in style with 1000 of her closest friends @ the royal t. cafe/store/gallery in culver city tonight.please enjoy these images-

the absolute best was the customized hello kitty airstream trailer! check it out-

THE HELLO KITTY DINNING ROOM

THE HELLO KITTY KITCHEN

THE HELLO KITTY MASTER BEDROOM

AND THE HELLO KITTY BATHROOM.. PLEASE NOTE THE HELLO KITTY TOILET!btw, does anyone remember HELL KITTY by jim yousling back in the 80s? i think he got sued by sanrio.

on another sad note, the original pie-face is dead.....comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83.October 22, 2009 | 9:18 p.m. Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, has died. He was 83.

I have to admit, i thought he was already dead. it was a relief to find out he was still alive, followed by sorrow that now he has passed. i have a special fondness for soupy as i grew up watching THE SOUPY SALES SHOW as a kid. he used to have a puppet called booby. as a child i started to call my mother booby.. then as i got older shorten her name to "B." i still call her this nickname to this very day. "B" is now the ripe ol age of 85.

Sales died at Thursday night at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx, New York, said his former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. Sales had many health problems and entered the hospice last week, Usher said.

At the peak of his fame in the 1950s and '60s, Sales was one of the best-known faces in the nation, Usher said.

"If President Eisenhower would have walked down the street, no one would have recognized him as much as Soupy," said Usher.

Sales was born Milton Supman on Jan. 8, 1926, in Franklinton, N.C., where his was the only Jewish family in town. His parents, owners of a dry-goods store, sold sheets to the Ku Klux Klan. The family later moved to Huntington, W.Va.

His greatest success came in New York with "The Soupy Sales Show" -- an ostensible children's show that had little to do with Captain Kangaroo and other kiddie fare. Sales' manic, improvisational style also attracted an older audience that responded to his envelope-pushing antics.Sales, who was typically clad in a black sweater and oversized bow-tie, was once suspended for a week after telling his legion of tiny listeners to empty their mothers' purse and mail him all the pieces of green paper bearing pictures of the presidents.

Another tidbit of interest, soupy's two sons, Hunt and Tony, a pair of musicians play with David Bowie in the band Tin Machine. READ MORE-

antebellum takes great sorrow in posting~friend and model- marco berry recently passed away. he was a sweet & sexy man and will be missed by all.here are some photos i took of marco for tony ward's clothing line- SIX IN THE FACE.freinds forever- marco berry-william cullen-frankie mactavish.marco will stay in our hearts & minds.

10/21/09

Philip Spooner is a lifetime Republican, World War II veteran and, to everyone's surprise, a gay marriage supporter. The 86-year-old gave a heartfelt speech in support of gay marriage to Maine's Judiciary Committee back in April, and the video has just now become an internet hit.Spooner's voice wavers often as he weaves his own life story into the speech, using his experience as a soldier as his main defense for gay marriage. He lists his accomplishments in the war, among them serving in Patton's Third Army and carrying POWs back home, making it clear that he's a true American -- and according to Spooner, there's nothing more American than fighting for equality- READ MORE-Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/philip-spooner-video-wwii_n_329446.html

Two arrested in horse sex caseremember the screening antebellum had last year of ZOO? the doco about the guys in washington who had sex with an arabian stallion and died? well here's an undate... it seems a man who was identified in court papers four years ago as having taken part in a horse-sex party that led to the death of his friend, (mr. hands) is now accused of performing sex acts with a horse at a Maury County farm.James Michael Tait, 58, 2348 Double Branch Road, was arrested and charged Thursday with three counts of animal cruelty. Kenny Thomason, 44, 2348 Double Branch Road, also faces two counts of the same charge.“This is one of the most upsetting days I've ever dealt with,” Maury County Sheriff Enoch George said Friday-READ MORE-

boardner's bar, located @ 1652 n cherokee ave, is a hollywood legend. open since 1942, boardner's has been a watering hole for such luminaries as robert mitchum, charles bukowski, orson wells and elizabeth short, aka the black dahila. check out the famous scene from ED WOOD~

you can also see MUSSO & FRANK in the background.BTW, BOARDNER'S also has the best happy hour, (daily, 5-8pm), in hollywood and is located one block east of ANTEBELLUM GALLERY!